Word: subs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...question, because affirmative action has almost become a perjorative term. In its narrow sense, affirmative action is a policy required by federal contractors that has to do with employment. In a broader sense, I think it is social policy. If through an analysis of society, one finds that identifiable sub-groups of society are differentiated by significant gross disparities, one has to make the decision of whether or not that's good social policy, or whether or not it is in the interest of the society generally to try to shrink those disparities. One can do that by sort...
...cutback drew fire both internationally and at home. Said Sven Burmester, a World Bank expert on sub-Sahara Africa: "This means that people will starve." Declared C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics, a Washington-based think tank...
...Neither Harvard nor MIT turn out computer scientists with immediately marketable skills" agrees Peter Elias, visiting professor of Computer Science Elias served a two-year stint as acting associate chairman of the Computer Science sub-department at MIT before taking his sabbatical here this year...
...people in the cities. One result: the importation of food has tripled in Africa during the past decade. Nigeria, which was once largely self-sufficient, spends $2 billion a year on imported food. In terms of per capita income and the availability of food, the citizens of many sub-Saharan countries are worse off now than they were at independence...
...Review Group for a 1981 World Bank report, argues, "No continent or region or country is going to modernize itself and develop its resources unless it begins with agriculture." The problem, says the World Bank report, is not financing alone. It estimates that aid earmarked for agricultural projects in sub-Saharan Africa totaled some $5 billion between 1973 and 1980. Berg holds Western governments partly responsible for approving expensive and inappropriate projects in the first place...